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Not much said, o'shea when pressed really said he and randle would have been good team mates, referring to what chris randle said about grigsby. Friesen asks the dumbest questions and you can tell MOS has zero respect for him just the way he answers his questions, asked why they can't speak to the assistant coaches, o'shea then goes on to explain what he has said all season, friesen then asks why they had a closed practice today, o'shea said cuz the RCMP were doing exercises at the stadium too and civilians weren't allowed in. Friesen says why didn't you tell us, MOS says 'cuz i don't have your number". LOL. just classic. Seriously 2 minutes on Grigsby, same questions, Lawless was the most informative of them all, kills me to say this but felt lawless asked the best questions about it.

Here is the difference between Bomber fans blaming MB and rider fans blaming Cortez... Cortez has been one of the best OCs in the CFL for years and years and years while MB has peaked at average and shown for years that the best he can do is average. He has had bland and dull offenses every where he's gone and they've done just enough to not be a total embarassment at best. Cortez on the other hand has had CFL leading offenses many times on many different teams. One guy has a stellar resume and the other is the guy you hire when you have no other choices. Yes, it seems MB mediocre as our OC and should be replaced. Bombers inability to produce on Offence is their biggest problem. Defensively we are not great - but not as bad as everyone is making out. If you look at points surrendered you see that this year our defence actually didn't cost us too many games. D contributed points with turnovers and held opposing teams to low points against. My concern is actually with MOS in relation to the O. He admits he knows nothing about the offensive phase of the game and therefore delegates to his OC. This was fully revealed couple weeks back on the Coaches Show when a caller asked why Bombers don't run more outside runs and power sweeps. MOS said those plays don't work in the CFL because opposing Ds have their fastest players between the hashmarks and sidelines. The field is 65 yards wide. These plays do work. Also, MOS said you can't have extra blockers and delayed release plays but of course this is rubbish also. Never did MOS say that he knows nothing about the offensive phase of the fame! You obviously have a selective memory...that was Burke last year who said he knows nothing about offence. Yeah i have to admit, i tend to listen to the coaches show every week and don't ever recall MOS saying anything remotely close to that.

Can hear the media bitching because they have had to sit around for 20 minutes, however one guy just said practice ended 10 minutes later today.. Someone just snorted while laughing, probably lawless. and they have stopped the stream.... dun dun dun...

My question on Swiston is, how bad is he? I mean, he hasn't played all year, he's on our PR. I'm not so sure he's that great actually, if he was one would assume he would be playing instead of one of our 3 import oline. Him being on the PR right now and not getting a chance at all this year says to me that 1. he isn't good enough or 2. he's still hurt a bit.

It does make you wonder.

Yeah i really don't think the team cares if there are boo birds out, i mean really, if the team is being run by the fans and players are being sent packing cuz the fans are booing, we got bigger problems then who the coach or players are.

Aint no quit in a man...who quit? Yeah subers tweet makes no sense considering grigsby asked to be released, asking for your release is the polite way of saying "i quit'. so obvious there is quit in that man, a lot of it apparently.

I was under the impression that most people wanted Grigsby gone weeks ago, not sure why some are thinking this is a bad thing, when most of us wanted this to happen weeks ago. Guess it shows you how out of touch some fans and media actually are with the fan base, kicking us when we are down? is this really a day where we are down/ or is this kind of a happy day because the guy 90 percent of this board wanted released, well he was let go. It's a good day no? plus 20 out and grigsby got released, only way it can be better is if i win the lottery tonight.

LOL. it's been 3 games and 2 vs 2 of the best teams in the leauge the last 5 years, san jose played 2 games and gave up no goals in those 2 games, it's not like we were playing against bottom feeders here, the fact we finished 1-2 on that very tough road trip to open the season, and 2 of those games on back to back nights, pretty decent. Anyone expecting the Jets to beat the kings and sharks, maybe i was hoping they could beat the Sharks cuz i didn't think the Sharks would be very good this year, but then i remembered the sharks only suck in the playoffs, they dominate the regular season.... 1-2 on a tough 3 games in 4 nights trip is a pretty decent start to the season really. Injuries suck tho.

His twitter feed says otherwise. Reading between the lines on his tweets, pretty obvious he asked to be released because he was replaced by Cotton.

I honestly don't think Paris will do much better, we play calgary twice and bc once, those are probably 2 of the best 3 teams in terms of run defense this season... but i hope he is given a fair shot, i honesly don't see him doing much because our oline is that bad but... if they give him a hole and he can break a leg tackle, he's already done more than grigsby, must be frustrating for the oline to open up a hole for a back only to see that back was tripped off in the back field cuz he couldn't break a shoe string type tackle.

I agree, and i feel by just adding 2 solid american tackles, that would make a difference. Gotta be honest here, January has had a pretty brutal season, really bad actually, way more bad than good, him sucking has probably lead to a guy like greaves, who january plays beside not playing that great either, when your buddy beside you is sucking, you are probably going to try to over compensate a bit and try to do more than you should. I think if we can find 2 american tackles, and one canadian (guard) we should be ok. Holmes is a guy i'd go after, he's a starter immediately, Draft a guy too. Reality is, if we get some luck.. and some growth and actually get a guy in the draft who can play right now.. That oline can be significantly changed in one off season, need some luck there tho.

But he kind of is, because at times the oline has given him holes to run through, all he had to do was run through a leg tackle or make one guy miss and he had plenty of yards in front of him but more often than not, grigsby couldn't run through that leg tackle, always seemed to get tripped up by those little leg tackles that every back in the league runs right through. I always thought Grigsby was kind of an odd one, on the field i mean, how? Well it seemed like he could break the tackles where you think he shouldn't, he could push the pile at times but.. the tackles you think he should be able to break, nope, didn't do it. The little leg tackles, the "shoe string" type tackles, never could break those ever.

We have good backups but right now those backups are playing because our depth is so poor, like mentioned above, Thomas is a good player, he shouldn't be a starter tho but as a backup? he's pretty solid, same with sherman, probably not a starter exactly but as a backup? pretty solid. We all knew our Canadian depth would be an issue, you had to be crazy to think it could be fixed in one off season, the reality tho for the Canadian depth situation is it's gonna take some time to be where we truly need to be, couple seasons at least, if not more, took how many years to get to this point? Can't fix it in one or 2 off seasons, gonna take time. The canadian depth issue is going to be an on going topic for some time i feel American depth though? well, they have brought some guys in, Daniels and Anderson on the OL, brought in Tyler also, tried howard, jones, tried a few different guys there, they are trying but guess haven't found that guy yet, maybe daniels and anderson can be those guys, thought Tyler has looked ok the last couple games. He seems capable at least. Hopefully once we are officially eliminated some of the PR guys are given their chance. Would love to see it, Really hope to see Anderson and Daniels get a game or 2 to show what they can do.

A team desperate for a back like Hamilton might take a flier on him. Or a team desperate for someone who can catch the ball like Ottawa may use him as a receiver. A team desperate for a back like Hamilton might take a flier on him. Or a team desperate for someone who can catch the ball like Ottawa may use him as a receiver. Haha! Let's hope it's Ottawa! It won't be anybody. I can almost guarantee it, Ottawa has 2 pretty good backs, that williams guy is pretty good and i don't see any other teams picking him up.. who? maybe BC but i doubt it, there oline is as bad as ours.

You know what, you had a guy like Cotton and i'm not the biggest cotton fan, but... he has done all that has been asked of him, got sent to the IR, sent to the PR, told to sit game after game after game and while it did come out that his agent was looking for other opportunities, he stuck around on the PR and never really bitched or complained at least in public like grigsby did, I'm not the biggest fan of Cotton but i'll take a guy with his attitude over a guy like Grigsbys every day. Grigsby benched for one game, one friggin game and then quits? Good riddance really.

some fun stats Grigsby only had 1 game of rushing for more than 100 yards, that was the first game of the season 21 carries for 121 yards his next highest rushing total was about 2 months and 1 week later where he had 10 carries for 73 yards his last 3 games as a bomber 32 carries 121 yards quite amazing actually, just having some fun here, remove his best and worst games.. and he has 131 carries for 615 yards... or about a 4.6 yard average, you add those 2 games (his best and worst) and his average is still 4.6 yards. That worst game i referred to, vs sask.. 10 carries for 7 yards.. his longest run that game was 6 yards so that means he had 9 carries for 1 yard. Thats awful. Another game there, 15 carries for 19 yards.. longest run was 17 yards... meaning he had 14 carries for 2 yards? seriously?? wow I know you can't really do that but if you actually remove his one big run of the game, his average drops significantly, like it's tiny, probably about a 3 yard average per run if you eliminate his one big run per game, i know i know, can't do that but still.. it's telling really. http://www.cfl.ca/roster/show/id/5261

You got some people saying they shouldn't have released him and should have traded him instead.. to who exactly tho? I'd like to know who the heck would trade for this guy.. nobody, BC's anatolin is better, nobody trades for below average running backs in the CFL. why do people think this?

The reactions by some fans on twitter is classic, couple days ago everyone wanted grigsby gone, now that he is, some people are upset about it. I'll never truly understand this fan base at all, want the guy gone, 2 days later he is, and then complain about it? whaaaatttt Sounds to me like the guy quit, he got benched and then quit.. benched for one game and then quit, those aren't the type of players i want on my team.

Anyone have any idea what Penton is talking about.. said the bombers are a mess, their leading rusher and receiver quit? did denmark quit too?

Cuz I don't want too ?

Why not?

His tweets really do tell you the story.

Not gonna post his tweet but he asked to be released.

Shocking but Irving said he didn't want to accept his role as backup running back. Guess not really a team player.